Things to play or beat (4)

I believe the answer is:

odds

(Other definitions for odds that I've seen before include "Starting price" , "prices" , "The chances of something happening" , "Measure of probability" , "familiar to our betters?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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